Women in Singapore have much to celebrate - but having choices doesn’t remove challenges

Protective and empowering legislation, along with individual autonomy, ring hollow if we remain guided by entrenched gender stereotypes – about both men and women. My grandfather had come across a particular printed cartoon of a factory production line and quickly became obsessed with its messaging. He made several copies for me and my cousins, seizing any chance to educate us on what he’d gleaned from the cartoon.

Butker’s speech evoked a familiar frustration in me, though not because I believe women should be more than homemakers. Rather, it’s because his remarks, like my grandfather’s, implied that women who make certain life choices – and only those kinds of life choices – are more worthy, better off or have fulfilled their purpose, unlike those who don’t.

For one, we generally don’t have faith-based national policies about our body and health forced upon us. Neither do we have to fight tooth and nail to get an education or a job solely, there is perhaps less fear that anyone will be stuck in an unhappy marriage for life due to legislation or lack thereof.

Personally, before I started solo travelling and couchsurfing with strangers in my twenties, I took for granted my ability to leave home, whether at 2pm or 2am, knowing I’d be able to return in one piece. I never knew what extreme heightened vigilance felt like, until I was trapped with strange men in the confined spaces of planes and trains while abroad.for 2023 stood at six per cent, down from the unadjusted median gender pay gap of 14.

Estee Williams, one of the more popular creators in the tradwife subculture, explained in a video that a tradwife is a woman who chooses to subscribe to “ultra traditional gender roles”. The man goes to work and provides for the family, while the woman is the homemaker.

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